My goal with this website is to help other investors learn how to automate and improve their investment process, and show them how to avoid some of the big mistakes that most investors make.
One of the biggest mistakes is to focus too much on the short-term, including all the fluff and hype that comes from most of the media.
Instead, my focus is always on on the long-term and more importantly, on using the findings from many academic studies to beat the market without taking on additional risk.
I’m interested in showing the exact steps that anybody can take to build a risk-appropriate portfolio of value stocks using repeatable, systematic and yet relatively simple strategies.
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What other readers think
“Love the blog, it’s way better than wading through the scams, nonsense and endless news and short-term analysis that make up a large percentage of the online finance world.” – Tim E, Australia
About me
My name is John Kingham and I have spent the last 14 years working on insurance software systems. This work eventually lead me into the field of investing where I’ve been developing and using research-based investment strategies for over a decade.
I started UK Value Investor back in 2008 and you are now one of around 2,000 people who reader this site every month.
Media
UK Value Investor is a content partner with stockopedia.co.uk, a community site for UK investors.
I was fortunate enough to be featured in an article published by Business and Finance, Ireland’s leading business magazine. I’m grateful to Philp O’Sullivan for asking me to contribute.
The Defensive Value Report – A tool for investors
After many conversations with friends and readers, I found that many value investors were looking for a simple method of building a portfolio of shares that would allow them to sleep easily at night as well as have the potential of market beating returns. The answer is large-cap value investing with a focus on dividend income too.
In late 2010 I moved my own retirement funds towards this style of investing for the same reasons and, after explaining the approach for the 100th time, I decided to write a short report on the subject. You can download that report here.
That only seemed to raise interest in the subject, so I have now started a subscription only report or ‘newsletter’ which is focussed on making the task of finding good companies at low prices easier.
Each issue contains a pre-selected and pre-sorted list of over 100 shares. The list is sorted so that those shares with the best long term earnings and revenue growth, the best price to earnings power ratio and the best current dividend yield will tend to be near the top.
Then a fairly simple step-by-step system can be used to select what you think is the most attractive share.
In addition to the list of stocks, premium subscribers can follow a model portfolio which is built and managed using the same high-quality/low-price investment process. In addition there’s a market overview and valuation so subscribers always know whether the market is potentially cheap, expensive, or somewhere in between.
If you’d like to know more then the subscription page is here.
Information, not advice (the legal bit)
I’m not a registered investment advisor and I don’t give recommendations of what to buy or sell. This web site is for information purposes only and nothing in it should be construed as a recommendation to invest or otherwise.
The value of an investment may fall and an investor may lose all their money. The investments referred to in this web site may not be suitable for all investors, and if in doubt, an investor should seek advice from a qualified investment adviser.
Please see the disclaimer.
The site is constantly evolving and so any feedback is welcome. You can get in touch through the contact page.
